Polykratos ran his hands through the long grass, a shadow loomed over him, he shook himself awake.
"Alright porcupine?" Tychon the archer offered a hand to the Locargos, "Enjoying your nap?"
Leandros had an arm in a sling, never a good sign, and Polykratos's ears rang.
"Where are the Persians?"
"Pursuing the other Greeks, out boys holding the hill was enough of a discouragement. Plus, I think they used up their arrows on you two!" The archer whistled a jaunty tune as he walked away.
"Still not in Hades, Polykratos?"
"Still not in Hades, Tychon!" he grinned, slapping his second on teh back, and regretting it as his hand contacted armour.
Mark and I were joined by David at teh Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club for a three sided game of Mortal Gods. David had been threatening to get his stuff on table for a while, and we decided now was the time. Each of us took 400 points. My Thespians, Mark with Persians, and David with generic (and slightly illegal) Greeks. We went for a straight up fight, with a rough three way deployment. I got the hill, Mark the rock, David the crops, and the temple was all to play for. 
Quickly David moved his heroes towards mine and Mark's warbands, while his troops lagged behind. Mark spread out, archers looking for sight lines, while my archers scrambled over the rocky hill, which had slowed up my hoplites quite a bit. 
One of David's heroes was cut down by Persian and Greek missile fire (oops) and immediately drew the 'death' card! His Lochargos slammed into one of my Hoplite blocks, causing two wounds a stand of brave Thespians. Polykratos put his efforts into getting the Hoplite phalanx formed up to boost the grunts protection. Tychon decided to get involved, personally! 
Quickly wounding the Greek general and forcing him back.
Then David's slingers tried to hit Tychon, who took umbridge and went off to give them 'a severe talking too'! Polykarpos walked round the back of the phalanx, and the archers also drew a bead on the Greek hero. 
Polykratos showed what he was made of, cutting down David's Greek hero.
This broke David's warband, as this was his last hero (Mark's Immortal hero had cut down his final hero). Now it was my Thespians vs Mark's shooty horde. Polykratos took down Mark's Immortal hero (after Tychon rolled 6 hit, followed by 6 shields, ie six massive misses), but he passed his 'Test of honour' and despite a broken shield arm, he sprang back up. Pushing him back revealed my heroes to the volley after volley of Persian shots. He struggled up, but Mark's archers had lazer designators.
My archers tried to keep pace with Mark's shooting, but it was not good enough. Polykarpos fell again. Even having a holy wind chime that restored wounds, did not help.
His heroes leapt the temple walls and fell upon Tychon, wounding his sword arm. Nearly all those units out there shoot! 
My peltasts had slowly been nibbling away at the immortals on the far left, but heroic combat would decide this game. 
And it was Mark who felled Tychon, victory to the Persians. David had fallen into the trap of advancing heroes without infantry support. If I had been able to get in on his foot with my hoplites on his lighter foot, I might have squished him.
Another great game, it was David's first, but we have all agreed to give it another go in two weeks, with a fourth player, so two games each in an evening.
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